The cache consisted of (200) heavy machine gun rounds, two gas masks, three former regime Iraqi Army uniforms, five former regime Iraqi Army flak vests, a notebook, two rolls of command wire, a 57 mm projectile, half a stick of dynamite and one roll of detonation cord.

The rounds, dynamite, projectile, detonation cord and command wire were destroyed in a controlled detonation. The other contents of the cache were collected and taken in for further examination.

“This shows that they (CLC) are doing what they can to safely secure their neighborhood,” said Capt. William Lyles, 1-30th Inf. Regt. battle captain. Lyles, from Hampton, Va., added that the citizens are doing a good job of turning in items insurgents would use.

Also in Hawr Rajab, Soldiers of the 5th Battalion, 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division detained three individuals. The three men were identified by a CLC group as al-Qaeda members and known improvised explosive device emplacers. The men were detained along with (12) magazines with approximately (100) rounds of AK-47 ammunition.